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· The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. "The Arrangements." The New York Times Book Review, 2016.

· The story opens with Melania Trump.

· Melania’s husband, Donald, is too busy to order flowers from Alessandra, so she decides she will call and order them herself.

· When Donald calls Alessandra he tells him to put together “something amazing” (1).

· When they first got together, Melania once asked Donald if he had a favorite flower.

· Donald replied that he uses “the best florists in the city” (1), and Melania realizes that for Donald, “taste...was something to be determined by somebody else, and then flaunted” (1).

· It used to annoy Melania the way Donald would point out his flowers to guests in need of their praise.

· Now, however, Melania feels annoyed when guests “did not gush as Donald expected” (1).

· Melania knew Donald used the...

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